[arc-discuss] pkg-get integration

[Philip Brown]

Trimming the mailing lists on this followup email down to "arc-discuss", 
since I guess it is the most appropriate for this. If people more familiar 
with "the opensolaris process" think this also belongs on install-discuss or 
something, please speak up...



Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> .... 
> I don't know who those people were or why they dropped the ball, but if
> you wanted to push it in from outside instead of relying on someone at
> Sun to decide they want to do all the work themselves to pull it in,
> that's a different kettle of fish, and something we can discuss how to do.
> 

I am interested in it. let's discuss :-)

A reminder to people who may not be familiar with pkg-get:
It is the "apt-get" equivalent transport mechanism, for BOTH blastwave.org, 
and sunfreeware.com, packages.



> For actual Solaris integration, I suspect figuring out what to do about
> which repositories to pull from by default, if any, and how that relates
> to Sun's support model & legal requirements, is the part Sun is going to
> have to think hardest about - but I'm not sure if that's a problem for
> OpenSolaris.


Yes, I think that is pretty much the only "Issue" that I am aware of, and 
it's more a "what color to paint it" kind of issue, in my book ;-)

I made the suggestion at the time i was originally approached, that there 
could be some kind of "first-run" wrapper, to offer some suggestions to 
users where they might like to set their repository to.

Or, I could modify the pkg-get code directly, to prompt, if there is none set.

What other suggestions do folks have, reguarding the issue of integrating 
pkg-get into Solaris/OpenSolaris?